If Olise's agent had said to you, you can have him for 40k a week on a 30m release clause or 200k a week for no release clause, what would you have said? (And those are the only options he's willing to consider).

It absolutely benefits the player but players have power to take the terms that appeal to them and reject the ones that don't.

If I was Sir Jim Radcliffe, I’d offer Palace £150m for both superstars Olise and Eze, keep Fernandes and build a new squad around those 3.

Long gone are the days when the big 6 can cherry pick the best talent on the cheap from other Premiership clubs. When United paid 80 million for Maguire I laughed out load, Guehi is much better so add another 20 million on for his signature. What did they pay for Anthony, I would add another 20 million on that for Olise’s signature!

Unless we want to sell any of our players nothing much will happen, so until I see it on Sky football news as a done deal, I’m a non believer……

Edited by Gary St.Andrews (09 May 2024 8.01pm)

On the potential Guehi transfer, and i've got to say i like what Richards brings to the team, Richards has had injuries in the past so were he to have another we could be light on. I am agreement that i would not swap Olise for anyone else in the Premier League. I expect him to be in either the French or England squad for the Euro's and make an impact.
With the financial fair play rules it looks like the super sized transfer fee's may have peaked so i am expecting the net spend to come down.

Looking at the net spend over the last 5 years they won't have any choice!

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